• By Annalee Newitz
    Dec 24, 2007 10:30 AM 3,579
    more about

    #madscience

    Three New Medical Technologies That Could Save Your Life

    A Black Hole Engine That Could Power Spaceships

    Why Do Humans Kiss? To Share Our Germs
    read more: #invisibility, #madscience, #materialsscience, #nanotech, #physics, #science

    One Step Closer to a True Cloaking Device

    Last year, a team at Duke announced a beta cloaking material whose special nano-properties make it "invisible" to microwaves. Today, however, researchers in Stuttgart have got something even better — a "metamaterial" that can cloak objects in the visible light spectrum. Made of gold nano-mesh, the material has a negative refraction index for visible light — that means it doesn't reflect light, and could give the illusion of blending into the background. I can't wait for my metamaterial full body suit for doing futuristic spy shit. Towards Cloaking Visible Light [Science Daily]


    Contact information for this author is not available.